Oakland sweep Minnesota
Mitch Moreland belted two home runs, Matt Olson crushed a grand slam, and Sean Manaea continued Oakland’s run of brilliant pitching as the A’s thumped the visiting Minnesota Twins 7-0 in the opener of a doubleheader on Tuesday.
Manaea (2-1) coasted through seven shutout innings while allowing just six hits and one walk. He struck out seven.
Manaea’s only previous complete game came almost exactly three years earlier — April 21, 2018 — when he threw a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.
In the second game, Jesus Luzardo teamed with two relievers to throw a two-hitter as Oakland completed a sweep of Minnesota with their second shutout of the day with a 1-0 win. The A’s claimed their 10th consecutive win.
The two shutouts gave the A’s four shutouts in their past five games. Luzardo (1-1) tossed 5 1/3 innings of two-hit ball, allowing one walk and striking out six. Lou Trivino struck out both batters he faced, and Jake Diekman fanned two in the ninth for his first save. The game’s only run came in the fourth inning, when Matt Olson hit a lead-off double and scored on Seth Brown’s one-out single.
At Seattle, Julio Urias allowed one hit in seven scoreless innings with a career-high 11 strikeouts as the Dodgers earned a split of a two-game series between division leaders with a 1-0 win over the Mariners.
Corey Seager drove in the game’s lone run with a third-inning single as the Dodgers snapped a two-game losing streak. The only hit Urias (3-0) allowed was an infield single by Mitch Haniger.
Victor Gonzalez pitched the eighth inning for the Dodgers, and Kenley Jansen worked the ninth.